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Staffords Niobe: or His age of teares A treatise no lesse profitable, and comfortable, then the times damnable. Wherein deaths visard is pulled off, and her face discouered not to be so fearefull as the vulgar makes it: and withall it is shewed that death is only bad to the bad, good to the good.
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Stafford, Anthony.
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STC 23129; ESTC S106303
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life_n yet_o they_o do_v not_o any_o way_n engage_v he_o who_o they_o save_v among_o which_o he_o place_v physician_n and_o make_v 13._o this_o his_o reason_n quia_fw-la ad_fw-la alienum_fw-la commodum_fw-la pro_fw-la svo_fw-la veniunt_fw-la because_o they_o seek_v another_o man_n profit_n for_o their_o own_o moreover_o a_o old_a man_n grow_v a_o young_a child_n again_o his_o limb_n fail_v he_o and_o all_o the_o faculty_n of_o his_o body_n fade_v nay_o which_o be_v worse_o his_o divine_a part_n begin_v to_o nod_n and_o be_v deprive_v of_o that_o subtlety_n which_o run_v through_o all_o thing_n in_o and_o above_o nature_n that_o be_v conceive_v all_o that_o be_v not_o inconceiveable_a and_o therefore_o seneca_n think_v that_o it_o be_v lawful_a for_o a_o age_a man_n of_o a_o imperfect_a mind_n to_o kill_v himself_o non_fw-la relinquam_fw-la 58._o senectutem_fw-la si_fw-la i_o totum_fw-la mihi_fw-la reseruabit_fw-la totum_fw-la autem_fw-la ab_fw-la illa_fw-la parte_fw-la meliore_fw-la 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